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A12211	A friendly advertisement to the pretended Catholickes of Ireland declaring, for their satisfaction; that both the Kings supremacie, and the faith whereof his Majestie is the defender, are consonant to the doctrine delivered in the holy Scriptures, and writings of the ancient fathers. And consequently, that the lawes and statutes enacted in that behalfe, are dutifully to be observed by all his Majesties subjects within that kingdome. By Christopher Sibthorp, Knight, one of his Maiesties iustices of his court of chiefe place in Ireland. In the end whereof, is added an epistle written to the author, by the Reverend Father in God, Iames Vssher Bishop of Meath: wherein it is further manifested, that the religion anciently professed in Ireland is, for substance, the same with that, which at this day is by publick authoritie established therein.	Sibthorp, Christopher, Sir, d. 1632.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1622 (1622)	STC 22522; ESTC S102408	494,750	610

can he be the Head of Rome that is not the principal and soveraigne Ruler of it Yea no manner of likelyhood is there that the Emperor of Germanie should be this Beast seeing he hath not only no Headship or Soveraigne authoritie over Rome but sendeth also to Rome to tender his submission and obedience to him that beares the sway and principalitie there namely to the Pope to whom for that purpose he giveth an Oath of Homage Allegeance or fealtie thereby declaring himselfe to be in respect of the Pope but as an inferiour to a superiour or as a subiect to a soveraigne Lord. The old famous Romane Empire then and the ample Maiestie of it here appeareth to be now long sithence abolished Which thing even Machiavell himselfe also witnesseth in the first booke of his Florentine History dedicated to Pope Clement the seventh saying Imperio è tutto in terrâ the Empire is fallen flat upon the ground And so doth Lipsius also likewise testifie who spent a great part of his studie to attaine to an exact knowledge of the Romane State So also doth Augustinus Stenchus the Popes Library-keeper in his first booke of Constantines Donation pag. 3. For howsoever Charlemaigne and his successors were stiled Kings of Rome and for a while had led the Popes as their subiects yet this lasted not long but the Pope at last found a meanes for to free himselfe from being under their dominion that hee made the Emperors in the conclusion to be his vassals and at his command and to yeeld him the Soveraignetie And all this have the Popes done under pretence of being Christs Vicars and of the Keyes of the Kingdome of heaven and of S. Peters Chaire Which things have beene also noted by Guicciardine in the fourth booke of his Historie where after a long discourse of the rising and advancement of the Popes hee shutteth up all with these words The Popes saith he upon these foundations and by these meanes being exalted to an earthly dominion having by little and little neglected the salvation of soules and cast aside the remembrance of Divine instructions bending their mindes how to attaine to vvorldly greatnesse and using spiritual authoritie no further but as it vvas an Instrument to helpe forward the temporal did beginne to shew more like secular Princes then Bishops These words as not pleasing them have the Romish Expurgators razed cleane out of the last Editions of Guicciardine as likewise they have done manie more out of sundrie other Authors where they make against them But thus it appeareth that not the Heathen Romane Empire nor the Arrian nor the Germane but the Romane State as it is setled in the Popes of Rome the now Head and soveraigne Ruler of that Citie is the Beast there as it is most specially meant and intended And this is the Beast whereupon the vvhore of Babylon that is Popish Rome sitteth and whereby she is supported for as his Spiritual authoritie and pretence of the power of the Keyes helped to raise him to his Imperial greatnesse and Temporal Monarchie so this Temporal Monarchie ioined to his Spiritual doe both together make him a complete Beast for the bearing up and supporting of that Strumpet 2 Let us therefore now come to the other Beast mentioned in this thirteenth chapter of the Revelation see what it is and wherein it differeth from the former For a difference there must be betweene them in some respect because it is called another Beast In this verie chapter yee finde that one of the heads of the Beast namely that which was as it were vvounded to death and afterward had his Deadly vvound cured againe is expressely called a Beast by it selfe For upon the curing of this head that was before so deadly wounded it is said that All the earth vvondred after the Beast Againe it is said that the Inhabitants of the earth did vvorship the first Beast vvhose deadly vvound vvas healed And againe that they were willed to make an Image to the Beast vvhich had the vvound of a sword and did live By all which wee see that this Head of the Beast which was so vvounded and healed againe is called a Beast by it selfe and by name and expressely the verie first Beast Now the Head that was so vvounded is before shewed to be the sixt head of the Beast namely the governement of the Romane State by Emperors for you heare before that the Imperial State received a deadly wound in the time of the Lombards and that that deadly wound was afterward healed and cured againe in the Popes in whom the Maiestie and splendor of the Romane Empire was againe revived So that the first Beast is considerable in a double respect first as it was vvounded in the sixt head which were the Emperors and secondly as it was afterward healed againe in the seventh head which were the Popes for the Head vvounded and cured maketh the first Beast Now in the second Beast is shewed How and by vvhose meanes that recoverie and cure was wrought and performed In the first Beast then Antichrist that is the Pope of Rome is described as having both the Episcopal and Imperial Principalitie conioined together in his person which made him so great and mightie and so much to be admired at in the world and for which cause he is also said to be both the Seventh and the Eighth Head of the Beast but in the second Beast Antichrist is described in his Episcopal consideration only and as he is the false-Prophet For he which in this place is called the second Beast is as I said before in other places of the Revelation called the false-Prophet thereby declaring them namely the second Beast and the false-Prophet to be all one Yea even the Rhemists also themselves doe expound this second Beast to be a false-Prophet but they will have him to be a false-Prophet inferior to Antichrist But first he is not onely a false Prophet but by way of excellencie and eminencie above all others hee is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The false-Prophet Rev. 19.20 Rev. 20.10 Rev. 16.13 And secondly it appeareth that he is not Inferior to Antichrist but Equal with him for in the first Beast is Antichrist comprehended as even the Rhemists and other Papists also doe themselves affirme now it is evident by the Text it selfe that this second Beast that is this false-Prophet did all that the first Beast could doe or which is all one exercised all the power of the first Beast Rev. 13.12 and therefore as touching authoritie and power hee appeareth to be not inferior to him but equall with him If you say that the first Beast and the second Beast otherwise called the false-Prophet be mentioned sometimes as if they were two it is true But the reason of it is because this grand Antichrist is considered in a double respect namely in respect of his Temporal or Imperial Monarchy in

Antichrist In that Apostasie then or Mysterie of Iniquitie which began to vvorke even in S. Pauls and S. Iohns time it is apparant that Antichrist was and consequently even then had his beginning And therefore whilest you suppose that Antichrist is not yet come and that all this while namely for the space of above 1600 yeares there hath beene but a preparation made for him and who when he commeth shall also continue but iust three yeares and an halfe doe yee not perceive the unlikelyhood and utter incredibilitie of these conceits Yea the premisses considered do you not perceive the manifest falsehood and evident untruth of them Why then should anie be anie longer deluded with them CHAP. III. Where the Pope is further shewed to be Antichrist out of the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation THere be two Beasts mentioned in this thirteenth chapter of the Revelation and what those two Beasts be must be enquired Wherein the knowledge of the one will give a great light for the understanding of the other First therefore by a Beast in this place according to the like phrase and manner of speech in Daniel is not anie singular or particular man but a State Kingdome or Dominion to be understood as I said before for so are the foure Beasts mentioned in Daniel expounded in the Text it selfe to be foure Kings and those Kings be againe expressely expounded to be Kingdomes in the 23 verse of the same chapter The next thing then to be enquired of is what Kingdome State or Dominion that is which is here meant by the Beast with seven heads and ten hornes The most certaine and undoubted exposition whereof wee must fetch as I shewed before from the seventeenth chapter of the Revelation where this Beast with seven Heads and ten Hornes is expounded declared for there the seven heads be expounded to be seven Hills or Mountaines whereupon Rome is seated They be further also there affirmed to bee seven Kings not ruling all at once but successively one after another as appeareth by the Text which saith that five of these were fallen one is and another is not yet come These seven Kings be those seven sorts of supreme or Princely governement wherewith Rome hath beene governed namely Kings Consuls Decemvirs Tribunes Dictators Emperors and Popes whereof five were fallen in the daies of S. Iohn namely Kings Consuls Decemvirs Tribunes Dictators One is that is the governement of Rome by Emperors which was then in Esse in the daies of S. Iohn And another is not yet come that is the governement of Rome by Popes for the governement of Rome by Popes was not then come to passe in the daies of S. Iohn but came in afterward Which governement by Popes is there said to be of a short continuance both for the comfort and encouragement of all Gods children against their fraudes and persecutions as also in respect of Gods account with whom a thousand yeares are but as one day as S. Peter saith and in respect also of eternitie and everlasting happinesse which Gods children doe chiefly regard and in comparison whereof they make little or no reckoning of the continuance of anie time in this world how long soever otherwise it seeme The ten Hornes be likewise there expounded to be ten Kings which at that time namely in the daies of S. Iohn had not received a Kingdome but should afterward receive absolute power as Kings Which ten Kings howsoever they had formerly given their helpe strength and power to the advancing maintenance and defence of the Whore of Babylon that is of Popish Rome yet should they afterward be alienated from her abhorre her and make her desolate and naked and consume her with fire And it is said to be the Beast that vvas and is not and yet is in respect of the diverse changes and mutations whereto that Citie of Rome hath beene subiect being in several times ruled by several heads and sundrie sorts of governors The description then of this Beast with the seven heads sheweth it to be the State of Rome or the Romane State which is there purtrayed and decyphered But because the Text it selfe saith that five of those were gone and past in the daies of S. Iohn so that there needed to be no further medling with them and that onely one was in Esse and being in that time namely the gouernement of Rome by Emperors and that another was to come which was the governement of that Citie of Rome by Popes it must therefore here be more specially and more strictly conceived and taken namely in respect of that one Head then present and of that other which was afterward to come The then present governement of the Citie of Rome all men know was by Emperors and the governement of it after the Emperors was by Popes So that the Beast there more specially intended is the Romane State considered in the two last Heads thereof viz. the Emperors and the Popes And therefore the Text saith that One of these Heads that is the sixt Head of it viz. the governement of Rome by Emperors was as it were wounded to death but his deadly vvound vvas healed and so healed as that all the Earth vvondred or was in admiration after the Beast That the Romane State governed by Emperors received a wound is apparant not onely by that which the Gothes Hunnes Vandals and others did unto it but especially by that which was done unto it afterward in the time of the Lombards So that at last the Romane Empire was as it were vvounded to death but yet afterward that deadly wound was healed againe namely in the Popes viz. when the Popes had gotten the Headship Imperial Maiestie and Monarchical and Soveraigne rule of that Citie and therein were set and stablished above all Emperors Kings Princes and people For then was the time when all the Earth had this Beast in so high admiration and then did they say VVho is like unto the Beast vvho is able to vvarre with him Yea of this Beast it was then further said That to him vvas given power over every kinred and tongue and nation and that all that dwelt upon the earth did vvorship him vvhose names vvere not vvritten in the booke of life of the Lambe c. Which speeches voices and admirations so great and so general and in that maner and sort produced doe not so well and fitly agree to Charlemaigne or to anie other whosoever as to the Pope of Rome as may appeare by further examination of it in the particulars For although the Beast here as it is taken specialius more specially comprehendeth the Romane State as it was governed both by Emperors and Popes successively one after another yet being taken as sometime it is specialissimè that is most specially and most restrictively it betokeneth the Romane State onely as it was at last translated and setled in the Popes First then